Proofpoint is a cybersecurity and compliance company that protects organizations against the threats that target people - email attacks, data loss, and insider risk. Founded in 2002, it became the first SaaS-based cybersecurity vendor to cross $1B in annual revenue, was taken private by Thoma Bravo for $12.3B in 2021, and today runs a 'human-centric' security platform spanning email defense, data security, and identity threat protection used by a majority of the Fortune 100.
Rohit Dixit is the Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at Proofpoint, the human-centric cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. With over 30 years of experience spanning SaaS, technology, and technology-enabled services, Dixit oversees Proofpoint's global customer success, professional services, managed services, and technical support teams. He joined Proofpoint in February 2024 from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he transformed a $1 billion advisory and professional services business into a record profit-generating unit. His career arc spans continents - from ESSEN Computers in India to oil fields in Kuwait, Egypt, and Turkmenistan with Halliburton, to strategy consulting at A.T. Kearney, to the C-suite of one of the world's leading cybersecurity firms.